"Is Genesis History?"
Given that the very first two chapters of the Bible, Genesis 1 and 2, contradict each other on the order of the creation story, I would have to say no.
"And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat." — Genesis 1:29 (KJV)
If you believe in the literal interpretation of Genesis, let your children eat poisonous plants. God says it's okay.
"But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." — Genesis 2:17 (KJV)
God wants you to remain ignorant, so watch "Is Genesis History?" Adam ate from this tree (Genesis 3:6 KJV) and not only did he not die, he lived for another "nine hundred and thirty years" (Genesis 5:5 KJV).
"Of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark." — Genesis 6:19 (KJV) "Of every clean beast thou shalt take thee by sevens, the male and his female." — Genesis 7:2 (KJV)
How many animals did Noah take into the ark? God contradicts himself when telling the story, so one or the other number must not be historically accurate.
"Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female." — Genesis 7:2 (KJV)
A tricky order. God doesn't tell anyone which animals are clean and which are unclean until he tells Moses in Leviticus 11.
"For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth." — Genesis 7:4 (KJV)
Why does God destroy all the innocent cute little puppies and kittens and butterflies? Is he really that much of a sadistic prick?
"And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark.
And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth." — Genesis 7:7–10 (KJV)
"In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark." — Genesis 7:11–13 (KJV)
Did Noah enter the ark seven days before the flood began as in Genesis 7:7–10. Or did he, as in THE VERY NEXT VERSES (Genesis 7:11–13), enter the ark the day that the flood began? How can both answers be historically accurate?
"Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered." — Genesis 7:20 (KJV)
Where did all the water come from? Where did the water go when it receded?
"And the flood was forty days upon the earth." — Genesis 7:17 (KJV)
"And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days." — Genesis 7:24 (KJV)
Did the flood last 40 days or 150 days? Both cannot be historically accurate.
As other reviewers have mentioned, this movie is nothing more than creationist propaganda, i.e., bullshit. There is no science and no history. So to answer the titular question, "Is Genesis History?", the answer is no.
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